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BATON ROUGE - Former LSU basketball great Collis Temple II deserved and received a lot of the credit for helping assemble LSU's 2006 Final Four team with local kids Glen Davis, Tyrus Thomas, Tasmin Mitchell and his son Garrett Temple.

But the former AAU coach who was on Coach Dale Brown's original LSU team in the 1972-73 season did not stop there. After coaching Davis, Thomas, Mitchell and his son when they were youths in AAU ball in Baton Rouge, all Temple did to help get 7-foot-3 center Andrew Del Piero to the Tigers was go to one of his favorite restaurants just off the LSU campus.